How and when did you become a brony?

[Rock-O-Jello 218]

Back in February 2013, my friend from shop class got me into MLP. I think it took me at least three episodes to get into it, and it really helped me recover from a horrible year I had later on. 

Edited October 9, 2023 by Rock-O-Jello
adding more info

[Pascalle 62]

What really got me into the show was this fantastic art style along with this unique world and characters.

[Theautisticrebel 304]

When my mom showed me an episode when I was 10 years old, it's been my favorite show ever since.

[MidnightFire1222 2,170]

I don't really remember actually; it's been years. I know I used hate seeing ponies everywhere and couldn't understand why people kept drawing them. Then people were bringing characters from it into rps I was in at the time (they were multi-verse rps) and when I don't know anything about characters I wanna learn more about them so I started watching the show. I guess Nightmare Moon got me hooked and while I don't like all the episodes (don't know anyone who actually does) I watched FiM and been hooked every since.

[DebonedAngel 197]

The memes! I saw a couple memes of the show and thought it was super cute, and I loved cartoons, so I checked it out around the beginning of season 2, and never looked back!

[Nightlight1313 176]

My G3s were my favorite toys when I was little so when FiM came out it was a natural next step. I think I liked that FiM had some lore and more depth to the world than any of my G3 DVDs had.

[Brony Number 42 10,069]

My friend showed me the spoof Friendship is Witchcraft. Then I saw Pinkie Pie sing Smile and that was it!

[The Recherche 29,968]

My 'origin story' is a peculiar one. I was very into the Creepypastas of the 2010's, back when I was a teenager. I couldn't say why really; in hindsight, most of them were tacky, lame attempts at horror. It didn't matter to me much at the time though; I was young and naive enough to where just about anything vaguely spooky made me jittery. Among the those videos I watched, I inevitably stumbled upon the Luna Game playthroughs, if you remember those. It was a cruddy, barely scary game really, but it was somehow enough to get me interested in the MLP fandom at the time. I never made the dive until about 2018, but I was something of an onlooker for a few years, browsing fanart and such. It took much, much longer for to actual watch and finish Friendship is Magic though. I had seen bits and pieces of it for ages, but it was only this year when I decided to sit down and watch the whole series, its specials, and the movies.

It was an interesting journey getting here, but I don't regret it.

[Cash In 22,313]

Hi @Pascalle

Just letting you know that I'm merging your thread with an already existing one. Thanks!

[Pascalle 62]

For me, it started with the memes. Then I thought I had to watch the show and I still love it today. I love the characters, stories and art style.

Edited November 8, 2023 by Pascalle

[Verdant Shy 959]

On 2023-11-08 at 6:18 AM, Props Valroa said:

 I first got into MLP in 2011, and watched a few of the episodes. I garnered an interest in it that was rather nascent. Then in 2012 I discovered the Elements of Insanity from this video. From then, I was completely hooked. Though, I was aware of MLP since 2010.
 

 

Yea.

I'm glad the pony behind it is still active btw.

[CurtisWildcat 29]

I copied and pasted this from my experiences listed in this post on Fimfiction, because it'll just take way too long for me to type this out otherwise. Technically speaking I don't call myself a "brony", per se, but this is still a good place for me to talk about how I became interested in MLP in the first place, so there you go. >^_^<

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Throughout my life, I avoided My Little Pony like the plague. Part of this was because I was always under the impression that it was aimed solely at girls, while the rest of it was because--if my online handle wasn't enough of an indicator--I preferred felines over equines (as an example, I became interested in Sailor Moon as a kid solely because of Luna and Artemis). I never really felt comfortable getting involved with MLP; I didn't even know that successive generations were a thing.

That started to change in late 2014, early 2015 or thereabouts. I'd been obsessed with Touhou Project-related stuff back then (and to a lesser degree still am), so when I heard about then-Screw Attack's One Minute Melee between Sakuya Izayoi and Dio Brando, I went to watch it as soon as I could. When I followed this up with watching reaction videos, I started noticing not just that several who'd seen that particular fight were interested in MLP, but also that "Starscream Vs. Rainbow Dash" was a thing.

So I watched the fight, watched reactions to it on YouTube (most notably those of Shanmul1995 and DYWTBA_Brony), and gradually became interested in what I was seeing. At this point, I decided to test the waters a little bit and checked into a certain set of fan animations (and reactions, of course) I'd heard about through TV Tropes but didn't look at too closely. It wasn't guaranteed to be factually accurate, but it would still give me an inkling of what I was getting into.

Turnabout ever-loving Storm.

I was on to something here. I continued reading stuff on TV Tropes about the show and recaps of the episodes, seeking out stuff that would interest me. I kept myself limited to stuff that I found either cool or funny (the latter mostly revolving around Pinkie Pie, as expected). The major downside to this, of course, is that due to my fairly narrow search criteria, the bulk of the episodes I haven't touched; the 100th episode is the only one that I've sat down and watched from beginning to end, if only because I like it when secondary/background characters get more fleshed out in personality.

Admittedly, this is why I don't call myself a brony. To me, being a brony would require a certain dedication or obsession with the show that I lack, being willing to maintain an interest in MLP that at least surpasses just casual observation, and I don't have that. When it comes to entertainment, I prioritize cats, professional sports (the Detroit, MI-area, to be more specific), and Touhou over almost everything else.

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There's a lot more that I didn't mention, but you're welcome to check the link up there if you want to read the whole thing.

As an addendum, I'm not quite as addicted to Touhou as I used to be, and I've gotten a bit more into MLP since then (I'd have to, if I wanted to write halfway decent fanfiction). 

Edited December 5, 2023 by CurtisWildcat
Minor clarification

[Verdant Shy 959]

On 2023-12-05 at 5:59 AM, CurtisWildcat said:

I copied and pasted this from my experiences listed in this post on Fimfiction, because it'll just take way too long for me to type this out otherwise. Technically speaking I don't call myself a "brony", per se, but this is still a good place for me to talk about how I became interested in MLP in the first place, so there you go. >^_^<

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Throughout my life, I avoided My Little Pony like the plague. Part of this was because I was always under the impression that it was aimed solely at girls, while the rest of it was because--if my online handle wasn't enough of an indicator--I preferred felines over equines (as an example, I became interested in Sailor Moon as a kid solely because of Luna and Artemis). I never really felt comfortable getting involved with MLP; I didn't even know that successive generations were a thing.

That started to change in late 2014, early 2015 or thereabouts. I'd been obsessed with Touhou Project-related stuff back then (and to a lesser degree still am), so when I heard about then-Screw Attack's One Minute Melee between Sakuya Izayoi and Dio Brando, I went to watch it as soon as I could. When I followed this up with watching reaction videos, I started noticing not just that several who'd seen that particular fight were interested in MLP, but also that "Starscream Vs. Rainbow Dash" was a thing.

So I watched the fight, watched reactions to it on YouTube (most notably those of Shanmul1995 and DYWTBA_Brony), and gradually became interested in what I was seeing. At this point, I decided to test the waters a little bit and checked into a certain set of fan animations (and reactions, of course) I'd heard about through TV Tropes but didn't look at too closely. It wasn't guaranteed to be factually accurate, but it would still give me an inkling of what I was getting into.

Turnabout ever-loving Storm.

I was on to something here. I continued reading stuff on TV Tropes about the show and recaps of the episodes, seeking out stuff that would interest me. I kept myself limited to stuff that I found either cool or funny (the latter mostly revolving around Pinkie Pie, as expected). The major downside to this, of course, is that due to my fairly narrow search criteria, the bulk of the episodes I haven't touched; the 100th episode is the only one that I've sat down and watched from beginning to end, if only because I like it when secondary/background characters get more fleshed out in personality.

Admittedly, this is why I don't call myself a brony. To me, being a brony would require a certain dedication or obsession with the show that I lack, being willing to maintain an interest in MLP that at least surpasses just casual observation, and I don't have that. When it comes to entertainment, I prioritize cats, professional sports (the Detroit, MI-area, to be more specific), and Touhou over almost everything else.

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There's a lot more that I didn't mention, but you're welcome to check the link up there if you want to read the whole thing.

As an addendum, I'm not quite as addicted to Touhou as I used to be, and I've gotten a bit more into MLP since then (I'd have to, if I wanted to write halfway decent fanfiction). 

Nice story! /)

[tryxp0ny 2]

Around January of last year, I think. One of my subscribers told me to do a cover of the song “Antonymph” and i listened, holy shit i was in love x3. i listened to some other vylet pony songs and thus Tryx was born.

[Verdant Shy 959]

On 2024-01-26 at 4:12 PM, tryxp0ny said:

Around January of last year, I think. One of my subscribers told me to do a cover of the song “Antonymph” and i listened, holy shit i was in love x3. i listened to some other vylet pony songs and thus Tryx was born.

Nice, very based! I LOVE Vylet Pony! /)

[calliecocat 30]

I became a fan back in 2014 but wasn’t really in the fandom much until now when I recently got back into the show and reignited my love for it. And I wanted a place to discuss but I’m not into most social media sites and was glad to have found forums like these as this is my preferred format for interaction online.

[Snoopy Fan 263]

I became a brony in either September or October of 2015. I watched the first Equestria Girls movie because it reminded me of Winx Club a little bit. I know it’s weird to watch Equestria Girls before Friendship is Magic, but it’s true.